Red Hat has an approach to run mainly Red Hat and free and open source (F/OSS) products. As a result, the maintenance and support costs incurred at Red Hat are very attractive compared to infrastructures built on traditional providers. While some challenges are more difficult when accomplished without proprietary tools, the Red Hat infrastructure proves that you can run an IT Infrastructure on mostly F/OSS tools and meet/exceed the uptime requirements demanded by enterprise businesses.
This presentation will provide a glimpse into Red Hat's corporate IT Infrastructure with a discussion about the products, tools, and processes used, and the realities of running Red Hat products in the enterprise. It will cover the general benefits of running a mostly F/OSS infrastructure and include the financial and risk factors that should be considered.
Key elements that will be covered include:
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
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| Carve out Costs | Deploy | Wednesday, September 2 | 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux support for mainframe systems allows customers to deploy a common operating system environment across their entire IT infrastructure. This presentation will provide an overview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on mainframe systems and describe how to carve out costs with one of the most expensive pieces of IT equipment available.
Specifically, this presentation touches on the business drivers and technical architecture of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the mainframe, highlighting how a value proposition is formed with the use of Red Hat Satellite and JBoss. Red Hat customer success stories from within the least-impacted financial sector in the western world (Australia/New Zealand) will be highlighted.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
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| Carve out Costs | Catalyst | Wednesday, September 2 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
With restricted IT budgets, businesses are under pressure to deliver more results with less resources. Open source allows companies to lower cost and total cost of ownership (TCO) by reusing existing hardware, software, and skills with no lock-in.
This presentation will provide a comparative TCO analysis of a Red Hat, JBoss, and Alfresco stack versus proprietary options like Microsoft SharePoint. Using publicly verifiable pricing to prove the true cost savings available with an open source stack, Dr. Ian Howells, CMO of Alfresco, will discuss how executives can fund IT projects with operating expenses as opposed to capital expenses.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
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| Carve out Costs | Catalyst | Wednesday, September 2 | 2:10 PM - 3:10 PM |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a vast range of diagnostic utilities and features. This presentation will provide advice for taking advantage of its tools in order to create an easy to support and easy to manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployment.
Andrew Hecox, a technical account manager at Red Hat, will provide information to help attendees get started using:
In addition Hecox will provide a brief overview of subsystem specific tools like blktrace, debugfs, ethtool, netstat, schedstat, and slabtop. He will also highlight Red Hat support and entitlement options, such as the TAM service and EUS. While Hecox will provide use cases for each tool, he will present only the minimal amount of work necessary to provide a comprehensive support and management toolset.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
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| Carve out Costs | Deploy | Wednesday, September 2 | 3:20 PM - 4:20 PM |
Zimbra is an advanced email, calendaring, and collaboration suite that allows integration with other business applications and enables organizations to save money and avoid the lock-in of proprietary software such as Microsoft Exchange and Windows. Zimbra, a charter member of Red Hat Exchange and part of the Open Source Alliance, and Red Hat provide ongoing product updates, and support for this leading open source collaboration suite.
In February of this year, the Wall Street Journal covered the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's (UWM) successful deployment of Zimbra in a story titled "Business Solutions: Smart Ways to Cut Costs." Bruce Maas, CIO of UWM, will join Andy Pflaum, Zimbra's vice president of business development and global channels, in a discussion about Zimbra's cost-reducing benefits.
Maas and Pflaum will illustrate the cost reduction achieved on campus through the leveraging of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Cluster Suite. They will highlight how enterprises, educational institutions, and service providers can save up to 40% on collaboration costs for thousands of users.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
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| Carve out Costs | Catalyst | Wednesday, September 2 | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
President Obama issued an executive order calling for increased openness, participation, transparency and collaboration in the government. To answer this call for a more open and transparent government, Red Hat, along with over 60 other companies, organizations, think tanks and academic institutions launched the Open Source for America Campaign www.opensourceforamerica.org. The primary mission of the campaign is to educate decision makers in the US Federal Government about the advantages of using free and open source software and to encourage the federal agencies to give equal priority to procuring open source software in all of their procurement decisions. Come listen and contribute to a conversation with Tom Rabon, EVP Corporate Affairs, and Paul Smith, VP & GM for Public Sector Operations, to hear how you can take advantage of the opportunity to rally members of the open source community to help the US government meet it goals of openness, participation, transparency and collaboration.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
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| Carve out Costs | Wednesday, September 2 | 5:45 PM - 7:00 PM |
Business Intelligence (reporting and data analysis) has been at the top of IT's to do list for over 10 years, but has remained expensive to purchase and deliver. This session will show configurations of Red Hat, Jaspersoft's commercial open source BI suite and other open source technologies to provide business intelligence services for organizations and individual applications at a fraction of the cost of proprietary options.
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| Carve out Costs | Catalyst | Thursday, September 3 | 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM |
Discount Tire Company, the world's largest independent tire and wheel retailer, needed to support its rapidly growing e-commerce business while keeping costs contained and complying with strict PCI security standards. The firm ran its entire e-commerce operation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as well as numerous internal applications including its Lotus Domino server application. They needed a solution that would fully utilize the company's IT resources.
Will Darton, Discount Tire's senior sever administrator, will discuss the implementation of Red Hat Satellite, an easy-to-use systems management platform for Linux infrastructures. Darton will also discuss how Red Hat Satellite has provided an easily managed, secure, and utterly reliable platform for Discount Tire’s e-commerce business, while enabling compliance with PCI security standards, increasing IT staff productivity, and containing costs due to the ability to easily provision, maintain, and manage servers.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
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| Carve out Costs | Manage & Secure | Thursday, September 3 | 11:20 AM - 12:20 PM |
The Cisco Unified Computing system is based on a full-featured open XML-API. This API enables developers to create unlimited use cases including inventory, monitoring, and configuration management that spans across compute, network, and storage resources in the UCS system.
In this session, Roger Andersson, Manager, Technical Marketing at Cisco, will discuss integration using the open XML-API and how they are applied to today's challenges in infrastructure management by focusing on the values of managing the infrastructure through policies and rules. The session will feature information about the open XML-API, a live demonstration of the UCS Manager, and samples of how to leverage the open XML-API.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
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| Carve out Costs | Manage & Secure | Thursday, September 3 | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM |
Economics drive open source adoption. Thus, given the current state of the economy and the need for businesses to do more with less, many enterprises are considering a migration to open source. Because many IT staff have experience with open source operating systems and middleware and are familiar with best practices for migrating to open source, databases will be the next wave of open source adoption in the enterprise. (In fact a recent Forrester reported that the future of open source databases remains bright, and that every enterprise should consider open source databases as part of an overall DBMS strategy to deliver cost savings.)
In this presentation EnterpriseDB CEO Ed Boyajian will discuss the economics behind the adoption of open source. He will also discuss why and how databases will be the next wave of open source adoption in the enterprise.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
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| Carve out Costs | Catalyst | Thursday, September 3 | 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM |
The proven value of open source software running on industry standard servers is driving adoption deep into the enterprise data center, enabling companies to replace aging UNIX*/RISC deployments with more powerful, flexible, and affordable solutions.
Vinod will describe CME's business environment; the migration requirements and challenges they faced; and the resulting TCO benefits of their transition on Linux on Intel® Architecture.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
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| Carve out Costs | Strategize | Thursday, September 3 | 3:50 PM - 4:50 PM |
Server-based, virtual desktop solutions are coming of age thanks in large part to the capability and adoption of server-based virtualization technologies. Many organizations are investigating deploying virtualized desktops with a specific focus on total cost of ownership as the primary criteria in the decision. However, the value of these deployments cannot always be captured in easily quantifiable cost savings. This session will explore both the hard and soft costs and advantages that a virtual desktop deployment can bring to a medium or large enterprise.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
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| Carve out Costs | Virtualize | Friday, September 4 | 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM |
The first part of this presentation will discuss the trends from proprietary UNIX systems towards INTEL x64 and Linux systems. The second part of this presentation will discuss why customers decide to migrate to Linux and how SAP OS/DB migrations are performed.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
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| Carving out Costs | Catalyst | Friday, September 4 | 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM |
In this session Red Hat will discuss the evolution of open source virtualization and some of the latest innovations in open source virtualization. Chris Wright and Andy Cathrow will cover the Red Hat Virtualization roadmap, introducing the new virtualization features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and preview some of the upcoming technologies.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
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| Carve out Costs | Virtualize | Friday, September 4 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |